RAMALLAH, February 5, 2018 (WAFA) – Fatah Central Committee’s meeting chaired by President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah hit the front page headlines in Palestinian dailies on Monday.

Al-Quds and al-Hayat al-Jadida reported Fatah Central Committee calling on the international community to devise a new mechanism capable of sponsoring the peace process in reaching peace.

It was also reported in al-Ayyam reaffirming the need that every effort should be made to achieve national unity and reunite the Gaza Strip with the West Bank.

The demolition of a Palestinian donor-funded school near Jerusalem also dominated the front page headlines in the dailies.

Israeli forces demolished on Sunday two EU-funded classrooms in Abu Nuwar Bedouin community near the town of al-Eizariya, to the southeast of Jerusalem, with al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida reporting that Israeli occupation bulldozers demolished two classrooms serving 26 Palestinian students in Abu Nuwar school.

Al-Quds reported the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) warning that a total of 37 schools face the threat of demolition by Israeli occupation authorities.

OCHA Acting Coordinator for the occupied Palestinian territories Roberto Valent reportedly said in a statement: “As in Abu Nuwar, hundreds of children attending one of at least 45 schools in the West Bank (37 in Area C” and 8 in East Jerusalem) with pending demolition orders are living in instability, with the specter of school demolition ever-present, threatening their access to education.”

According to al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida, Israeli occupation authorities also demolished a house under construction in Beit Dajan village, east of Nablus.

The dailies also spotlighted Israeli forces’ ongoing large-scale search-and-arrest raids across the northern West Bank district of Jenin in an apparently ongoing manhunt for Ahmad Nasr Jarrar, who allegedly killed an Israeli settler near Nablus last month.

Al-Ayyam said in this regard Israeli forces raided Jenin neighborhood of al-Jaberiyyat and detained a Palestinian from Jenin-district town of Yaabad.

The dailies also reported that the Israeli government unanimously approved a plan to give “legal” status to the settlement outpost of Havat Gilad in the northern West Bank district of Nablus in response to the killing of a settler last month.

According to al-Quds and al-Hayat al-Jadida, thousands of Palestinians attended the funeral of Ahmad Abu Obeid, 19, who was killed by Israeli forces a day earlier in Burqin village, near Nablus.

King Abdullah II of Jordan was reported in al-Quds and al-Ayyam telling CNN that there cannot a peace process or a peace solution without the United States.

Al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida said that an Israeli military court has postponed the trial of iconic Palestinian teen Ahed Tamimi to February 13.

They added that Norwegian lawmakers have nominated the international Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement for 2018 Nobel Peace Prize.

According to al-Hayat al-Jadida, Palestinian cabinet slammed a decision by the Israeli municipality of West Jerusalem to impose taxes on churches and UN properties in Jerusalem as an escalation.

Presidential advisor for foreign affairs and international relations, Nabil Shaath, was reported in al-Hayat al-Jadida announcing that Japan would increase its contribution to the UN relief agency responsible for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, and recognize the State of Palestine over stages.

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